November 2003

OOPSLA (conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications) is the "grand daddy" of conferences that bring together advanced developers and pragmatic researchers.
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Maven is a high-level, intelligent project management, build and deployment tool from the Apache project. There is nothing that Maven does that Ant cannot do. At the end of this article you will be able to build J2EE project artifacts using Maven.
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TheServerSide has demonstrated J2EE portability in action by re-launching itself on a cluster of J2EE application servers. Firstly, we relaunched running on Oracle 9iAS and BEA WebLogic. We then added Sun ONE Application Server and Novell exteNd to ...
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In this article, we'll examine a few frameworks, and look at the basic principles that they use to embrace simplicity. We'll look at a lightweight container and a persistence framework. Then, we'll look at how the larger J2EE vendors are supporting ...
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"Java Open Source Programming" is an interesting title as it could mean so many things. Take a look at many great open source technologies that developers should have in their toolboxes.
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When I first started to read JUnit in Action1, I was hoping that it wouldn't be a tutorial on the open source tool JUnit2. This book is far more than a tutorial. Learn about JUnit In Action.
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This article starts by discussing a proto-pattern called Encapsulated Business Rules. For the sake of simplicity, the pattern will be described in terms of plain Java classes and interfaces. Then, in the Consequences and Related Ideas section a ...
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